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When they had gone thus for a long, long way, the Foal again asked: 'Dost thou see anything now? 'Yes, now I see something that is white, said Cinderlad. 'It looks like the trunk of a great thick birch tree. 'Yes, that is where we are to go in, said the Foal.
'From whence do you come, then? inquired the King, for by this time he wanted to know a little more about the men before he took any of them into his service. So Cinderlad told him whence he came, and that he was brother to the two who had watched the seven foals for the King, and then he inquired if he might be allowed to try to watch them on the following day.
When thou hast cut off our heads, thou must take the greatest care to lay each head at the tail of the body to which it belonged before, and then the spell which the Troll has cast upon us will lose all its power. Cinderlad promised to do this, and then they went on farther. When they had travelled a long, long way, the Foal said: 'Dost thou see anything? 'No, said Cinderlad.
THERE was once upon a time a couple of poor folks who lived in a wretched hut, far away from everyone else, in a wood. They only just managed to live from hand to mouth, and had great difficulty in doing even so much as that, but they had three sons, and the youngest of them was called Cinderlad, for he did nothing else but lie and poke about among the ashes.
When he had got safely past the cleft in the rock, the youngest foal said: 'Get on my back, for we have still a long way to go. So the lad did this. And thus they journeyed onwards a long, long way. 'Dost thou see anything now? said the Foal. 'No, said Cinderlad. So they journeyed onwards a good bit farther. 'Dost thou see anything now? asked the Foal. 'Oh, no, said the lad.
Cinderlad tried, but could not do it; so he had to take a draught from the pitcher, and then one more, and after that still another, and then he was able to wield the sword with perfect ease.
No sooner had the seven princes come out into the churchyard than they became foals again, and Cinderlad got upon the back of the youngest, and they returned by the way they had come, only they went much, much faster.
'Yes, said the Foal, 'we shall go into that. When the Foals got into the churchyard they turned into men and looked like the sons of a king, and their clothes were so magnificent that they shone with splendour, and they went into the church and received bread and wine from the priest, who was standing before the altar, and Cinderlad went in too.
First they went over the bridge, and then past the trunk of the birch tree, and then past the old hag who sat in the cleft of the rock spinning, and they went by so fast that Cinderlad could not hear what the old hag screeched after him, but just heard enough to understand that she was terribly enraged.
When he returned to the marriage-feast with the seven princes, the King was so joyful that he both kissed Cinderlad and clapped him on the back, and his bride was still more delighted with him than she had been before.
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